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My joy, by man Moi sacked
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- Published on Sunday, 08 July 2007 00:05
"I may have failed the test of sycophancy but I have no intentions whatsoever, now and in the foreseeable future, to engage in it simply because that is not why I was elected," he revealed in a Statement
The MP for Kitutu Chache said: "Sufurias of ugali and cups of tea have neither increased nor decreased with my dismissal from the government."
Mr. Angwenyi, a close ally of former Finance Minister Simeon Nyachae and a former Assistant Minister for Trade, was sacked last Thursday, a few days after declaring at a public rally that he was ready for dismissal.
He said he had foreseen the sacking after his name vanished from the list during the February 18 Cabinet reshuffle."The following day I was told verbally to go to the ministry of trade (but) it was abundantly clear that my posting was an afterthought," said Mr. Angwenyi, also a former assistant minister in the Office of the President.
At the trade ministry he discovered that no office was allocated to him and there were no specific assignments for him - or even a chair. Mr. Angwenyi said the casual manner in which he was dismissed confirms what Kenyans generally understand about government appointments:
"They are seldom done on merit or popular support and are based on considerations of political loyalty, ethnic balancing, patronage and sycophancy," he said in a statement.He said the position of assistant minister is an amorphous one and the holder cannot influence policy directions or develop independent development frameworks.
"It is a big title without responsibility and which did not influence development and welfare of Kitutu Chache constituents," Mr. Angwenyi said.
He added: "Even as an assistant minister my constituents and I have suffered the pain of being treated contemptuously by the authorities, who knew I could not complain because of the disguised suffocation of collective responsibility."
There is nothing to show for his constituent's continued support for Kanu except false and unfulfilled promises, he said. He cited as examples the Kisii-Chemosit road which passes through the constituency and whose construction is stalled.
Recarpeting of the Kisii-Kisumu road stalled at Eroga market at the Kisii border a year ago, in spite of pledges by President Moi that the work would be completed.
